Table 5 Ablation study on CyberDetect-MLP components.
Model variant | Removed/modified component | Accuracy (%) | Precision (%) | Recall (%) | F1-score (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CyberDetect-MLP (Full Model) | — | 98.87 | 98.74 | 98.62 | 98.68 |
MLP-NoFeatureSelect | Removed Mutual Information-based selection | 96.22 | 95.89 | 95.34 | 95.61 |
MLP-NoBatchNorm | Removed Batch Normalization | 96.91 | 96.50 | 96.07 | 96.28 |
MLP-NoDropout | Removed Dropout (p = 0.5) | 97.08 | 96.83 | 96.32 | 96.57 |
MLP-NoScheduler | Constant learning rate (no scheduler) | 96.43 | 96.01 | 95.46 | 95.73 |
MLP-RawFeatures | No preprocessing or normalization | 94.86 | 94.35 | 93.82 | 94.08 |